[vlc-devel] Software decoding in Hardware buffers

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 8. elokuuta 2019, 15.29.30 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
> Any opinion ?

I don't see why we should mess the architecture for a hardware-specific 
implementation-specific unmaintained module.

Even when the GPU uses the same RAM as the CPU, it typically uses different 
pixel format, tile format and/or memory coherency protocol, or it might simply 
not have a suitable IOMMU. As such, VLC cannot render directly in it.

And if it could, then by definition, it implies that the decoder and filters can 
allocate and *reference* picture buffers as they see fit, regardless of the 
hardware. Which means the software on CPU side is doing the allocation. If so, 
then there are no good technical reasons why push cannot work - misdesigning 
the display plugin is not a good reason.

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